StrivingLife presents ...

Got a notice of http://littlebigplanet.us.playstation.com/ in my Gmail account a few moments ago.

I was unaware that LittleBigPlanet was already available for pre-order. I looked at Amazon, but, quite frankly, I want it rather quickly.

BestBuy.com doesn't have it listed, but Gamestop.com does, so ... my first online purchase through that site. Store pick-up selected, of course.

What I don't care for is that there will supposedly be different items available for pre-ordering, depending upon where you do so. For instance, a sticker book? Really?

Anywho, we'll see what happens. If anything, I suppose I can just cancel the pre-order, but I'm guessing Game Stop will get either the Brady guide, or one of the figures. Brady guide also makes sense for Amazon.

Sticker book? That must be some sticker book ...

Related links:

• LittleBigPlanet: Pre-order Goodness
• Order through Amazon

This morning Charter fixed whatever issues they were having, so I was able to purchase and download the full version of PixelJunk Eden.

I played 30 minutes this morning, and many hours this afternoon/evening. (When I shut down for the last time, my rank was 1013 - I'm sure it's already changed though.) 

As the demo suggested, this game is the closest thing to a masterpiece I've seen in a very long time.

While it may not have the quantity, the Playstation Network is certainly attracting a number of quality, unique, games.

Hopefully we can luck forward to many more gardens in the future, that we can grow/explore (although I suppose that would make one of their trophies incorrect, so an upgrade would have to resolve that issue).

I was big into 3d rendering in college, since I had a good deal of free time, and I wanted to do something productive.

Anyways, trueSpace, a fairly big name in 3D, is now available for free, thanks to Microsoft. It sounds like this was for Virtual Earth in particular, but Channel 9 (which is where I heard this release notice from) points out, correctly, that it's also very valuable for games (in particular, for Microsoft's XBox and game generation tools).

• Announcing trueSpace for Virtual Earth 3D Development
• This Week on C9: Free 3D tools, "Mojave", Cool Visualizations, and VS 10

In addition to trueSpace7.6, the manual and video training is also available for download. 

Already installed, and running, on my Vista machine.